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Shannon Gilligan

Shannon Gilligan

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Shannon Gilligan began working with Choose Your Own Adventure in 1981, when she was hired to project manage the development of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Escape into a video game for the first Atari console. She continued her involvement with Choose by writing several bestsellers in the series, including Cup of Death, Ghost Island, and The Lake Monster Mystery. In the early 1990s, Gilligan was evangelized by Apple to develop software for the Mac. Her mystery game "Who Killed Sam Rupert?" subsequently became the first game to include Quicktime, the earliest commercially distributed video playback software for personal computers. Gilligan continued to develop software for the Mac and the PC for several years, and produced and directed Comic Creator, voted Best Software of the Year by People Magazine in 1995. In 2006, she co-founded Chooseco LLC with R. A. Montgomery, as a purpose-built publishing house for the re-launch of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Gilligan has overseen the sales of over 15 million copies of CYOA in the past decade, while expanding licensing of the Chooseco catalog into film, board games, and now interactive audiobooks. In 2012, Gilligan conceived and wrote the script for the prototype of Choose Your Own Adventure Choose 'Toons, interactive cartoons based on Ray's bestselling title for younger readers, Your Very Own Robot. Since the series re-launch, Gilligan has written several more CYOA bestsellers including Princess Island and Unicorn Princess.

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    Shannon Gilligan

  • Personal name

    Shannon Gilligan

  • Source identifier

    OL1075176A

Featured books

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  • Unicorn Princess

    Representative edition published 2018

    Open Work
  • Gus vs. the robot king

    Representative edition published 2014

    Open Work
  • Choose Your Own Adventure - The Mystery of Ura Senke

    Representative edition published 2012

    Open Work
  • The Lake Monster Mystery

    Representative edition published 2009

    Open Work
  • Struggle down under

    Representative edition published 2009

    Open Work
  • Ghost Island

    Representative edition published 2008

    Open Work
  • Choose Your Own Adventure - The Case of the Silk King

    Representative edition published 2007

    Open Work
  • Das Gespenst ohne Kopf

    Representative edition published 2005

    Open Work
  • Choose Your Own Adventure - Showdown

    Representative edition published 1992

    Open Work
  • Choose Your Own Adventure - The Terrorist Trap

    Representative edition published 1992

    Open Work
  • THERE'S A BODY IN THE BRONTOSAURUS ROOM! (Our Secret Gang, No 6)

    Representative edition published 1992

    Open Work
  • CASE OF THE MISSING FORMULA, THE (Our Secret Gang, No 3)

    Representative edition published 1991

    Open Work
  • HAUNTED SWAMP (Our Secret Gang, No 2)

    Representative edition published 1991

    Open Work
  • À la recherche de Champie

    Representative edition published 1989

    Open Work
  • Choose Your Own Adventure - Terror in Australia

    Representative edition published 1988

    Open Work
  • Haunted harbor

    Representative edition published 1986

    Open Work
  • The Fairy Kidnap

    Representative edition published 1985

    Open Work
  • Mona is missing

    Representative edition published 1984

    Open Work
  • The three wishes

    Representative edition published 1984

    Open Work
  • Search for Champ

    Representative edition published 1983

    Open Work
  • Christmas, Starring You

    Representative edition linked

    Open Work
  • Three Wishes

    Representative edition published 2024

    Open Work
  • Another Reunion in Detroit

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • Reunion in Detroit

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work